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Monitor Fiasco January 2014
On my work desktop, I’m running Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salanader) and I have (or had, before the foobar) NVIDIA proprietary graphics drivers installed.
Just in case something like this happens again, these links helped me get where I was going to solve the issue:
Ubuntu Community Troubleshooting
How do I reset my display settings from the command line?
HOW TO FIX ERROR “THE SYSTEM IS RUNNING IN LOW-GRAPHICS MODE” ?
INSTALL NVIDIA DRIVERS ON UBUNTU 12.04 PRECISE/UBUNTU 11.10 ONEIRIC/LINUX MINT
Ubuntu 13.04 “The system is running in low-graphics mode” error?
Dual monitor problem: larger screen is stuck at lower than maximum resolution
code: Fullscreen secondary monitor nvidia
Nvidia Dual Displays not being detected
This one didn’t work for me, but it’s preserved here for posterity: HOW TO FIX ERROR “THE SYSTEM IS RUNNING IN LOW-GRAPHICS MODE”?
How to fix “The system is running in low-graphics mode” error?
Ubuntu 13.10 freezing and low graphics mode
Is my graphics card in use or not?
Install NVIDIA GeForce driver in Ubuntu 13.10 / 13.04 / 12.10 / 12.04 using PPA
How to fix “The system is running in low-graphics mode” error?
How to fix “The system is running in low-graphics mode” error?
…and once the previous links got me to where I was going, these two links: Blank screen after installing nvidia restricted driver and No second monitor and other problems provided me with the following code which solved my mess:
First I needed to check on which graphics card I had installed, and I used this command:
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
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